America Flashcards
Businessmen/Republican opposition to New Deal?
Worthless jobs (Boondoggle)
Claimed high taxes discouraged the rich to work
Too controlling
Capped fortunes at $3 million and earnings at $1 million per year
The Supreme Court opposition to the New Deal?
Closed down NRA, AAA and PWA for undermining state laws and imposing too much control
Accused FDR of being a communist/dictator as FDR threatened to sack 6 judges
Economic Problems immigrants faced in the 1920s?
70% of 80,000 river rouge were immigrants with them earning $5 a day
Social Problems immigrants faced in the 1920s?
Due to lack of money:
Lived in ghettos (With NYC being heavily populated with ghettos)
Were constantly being accused of being disease spreaders, causing crime/alcoholism and gambling to rise and were labelled communist
With J Edgar Hoover building up 60,000 cases on comunist immigrants
1924, Johnson Reid Act capped immigration at 150,000 and banned Eastern European migration
How were poor people affected by the boom?
1919-1927 workers rose from $1150 to $1300 whilst millionares rose from 7,000 to 35,000
Unemployment stayed at 4%
Only 10% went to the bottom 42%
How were farmers affected by the boom?
1919-1928 farm income dropped from $22b to $13b with Canada beating them
6 million forced off land
How were women affected by the boom?
10m employed by 1929 which was 24% more than 1920
Divorce doubled to 200,000 by 1929
1920 all women were allowed to vote
Civil Rights affect on change?
200,000 black and 50,000 white attended 1963 March
Bus lost 65% of its income
1954 Earl Warren ruled segregation should be stopped with delibrate speed
Equal pay act in 1963 but women still paid 70% of men
JFK/LBJ affect on change?
Great Society changed minimum wage from $1.25 to $1.40
Great Society spent $2.9b on houses building 240,000 new homes
New Frontier setup peace corps and gave $900m to businesses to create more jobs
